§ Major McCallumasked the Under-Secretary of State for Air if he will consider speeding up the arrangements whereby Service personnel serving abroad, whose presence at home is required owing to the dangerous illness of a near relative, can be repatriated with 29W the least possible delay; and if he will arrange that in such cases, the serviceman's unit is informed by cable, and not by letter, that the man's presence is required in this country.
§ Mr. StracheyThe decision to return a member of the Royal Air Force to this country on compassionate grounds rests with the command concerned, and in these urgent cases we always notify the full details to the command by signal. An officer or airman coming home in these circumstances would travel on high priority by the fastest means of transport available.